VA Secretary Eric Shinseki needs to go — Eric Shinseki has served his country honorably as a twice-wounded officer in Vietnam, as Army chief of staff and finally as President Obama's secretary of veterans affairs. — But his maddeningly passive response to the scandal roiling his agency suggests …

Reports: Julian Castro tapped for cabinet post — San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, a rising star in Democratic national politics who's even been mentioned as a possible vice presidential contender in 2016, is poised to accept an offer to serve in President Barack Obama's cabinet, his hometown newspaper reported Saturday.

Five myths about Brown v. Board of Education — Imani Perry, the author of “More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States,” is a professor of African American studies at Princeton University. — In the 1954 Brown v. Board …

Utah GOP Lawmaker: Bring Back Firing Squad Executions — SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In the wake of a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma last month, a Utah lawmaker says he believes a firing squad is a more humane form of execution. And he plans to bring back that option for criminals sentenced to death in his state.

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